PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Peterborough police have recognized human stays in a decades-old chilly case as these of a person who they are saying was a sufferer of murder.
Police say leisure divers discovered a human cranium within the Otonabee River in Peterborough on July 10, 1988, however in depth air and underwater searches didn’t get better the remainder of the physique.
They are saying a autopsy examination on the time revealed the cranium belonged to a male and that he had been murdered.
Police say that due to superior DNA testing expertise, the sufferer has now been recognized as Gerald Durocher, who would have been 38 years outdated on the time of his dying.
They are saying the stays had been despatched to a Texas-based forensic testing firm in October 2021, and genome sequencing was used to construct a DNA profile and determine potential kinfolk.
They are saying police then interviewed kinfolk and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service carried out additional DNA testing to substantiate Durocher’s id.
Police say Durocher had connections in Ontario, together with Ottawa, in addition to the Quesnel, B.C., space and investigators are asking anybody with details about the case to come back ahead.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Dec. 11, 2024.
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